Hello Everyone,Good news, Ajahn Gavesako arrived, stayed a while and left today (pic comming soon) and wont be online often/frequently for a while, Adrian arrived and seams in good spirits.I found out what generosity really was, and what true gratitude feels like

Will post photos etc on my facebook page & multiply page so stay tuned there and if I have time will post some here

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Manapa wrote:All is going well at Amaravati, going to Chithurst then Harnham for a week (each) before a quick stop home then back for another 3 month stay.

asked to become an anagarika. . . not much else to say and didn't look what I said last time but same stuff really, nice day off from regular duties (some) so having time at Hemel

I live about 10 miles away, at most. I wish I could be there, it would be wonderful.Practicalities mean I am unable to travel or spare the time, which is very disappointing for me. But it's wonderful to know you are enjoying your retreat there.

"...asked to become an anagarika..." Do you mean you asked, or you were asked? Either way, I hope it all happens for you.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

Manapa wrote:All is going well at Amaravati, going to Chithurst then Harnham for a week (each) before a quick stop home then back for another 3 month stay.

asked to become an anagarika. . . not much else to say and didn't look what I said last time but same stuff really, nice day off from regular duties (some) so having time at Hemel

I live about 10 miles away, at most. I wish I could be there, it would be wonderful.Practicalities mean I am unable to travel or spare the time, which is very disappointing for me. But it's wonderful to know you are enjoying your retreat there.

"...asked to become an anagarika..." Do you mean you asked, or you were asked? Either way, I hope it all happens for you.

I asked you live close enough to make the evening sitting from time to time if you can not get here during the day... the gate doesn't close until about 21:30-22:00 and opens about 05:00-06:00

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

just spent a week in Chithurst and now having 2 weeks off from monastery living.

Chithurst was really good, everyone was nice, and got half lost when I went on a walk with one of the monks, , it was a spontanious walk, and really nice, but could of done with a compass!

For me Chithurst has its benefits as a place more so than Amaravati, but Amaravati is the right sandpaper (Tenzin Palmo reference if you are familiar!) for me at least, but definitely see benefits to being in both places, and type of practice both are conductive for, or aspects of cultivating and strengthening of the practice etc.

I arive back on the 14th to Amaravati and am unsure about internet access over the next few weeks so hope to be on sooner rather than later.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion … ...He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.John Stuart Mill